- First half of the year was slow, fell out of love with the F1 games, though that was already happening, but this year became its final year for those games.

- The real life F1 season was pretty great though, many good races, and while 1 team dominated the season, it was still never a sure thing which driver was going to win the weekend or even the WDC(World Driver Championship).

- I updated my website to make it look like Windows 8, darkened it up, and just overall, made it nicer.

- I got an Xbox 360 along with so so many cheap games. Average game price was under $5, and I got close to 20 games this year.

- I played about 65 games, 59 of them being achievement enabled games and A LOT of them being free.

- My Logitech G27 broke a month before the warranty ended, so was happy to get that replaced.

So I bought a xbox 360 on the cheap, during the summer. Since then. I’ve been enjoying achievement hunting. Funny enough, most achievements I’ve obtained in the past few months haven’t even been on the 360.

But, in the end, holy cow is it fun, enjoyable, and pushes you. Getting achievements is a game within itself, it requires an entirely new skill to game playing. Of course, not all, some are incredibly easy to get, others, they take hours and outside the box thinking in order to get.

My ultimate goal is to get 10,000 Gamer Score before the year ends(currently at 6,685). I started this year with about 2,500GS, so it will be cool if I can achieve 10k. I even found a cool website that helps with tracking, guides, and other cool stuff. It’s called True Achievments(My Profile), they add their own scoring system, which, tbh, I don’t really care for as the official, is well, more official.

Anywho, long ways to go. Right now, I’m on 11 days in a row of getting achievements, for a total of 105. My short term goals is to go for a 30 days streak, and obtain 300 achievements. It will be tough, I’m not even sure I will end up doing it. But it’s worth a shot, it pushes my competitiveness to win.

I’m pretty late to the game of achievement hunting, some say it is even a waste of time. But I have picked up many new skills while trying to obtain some of the really hard achievements. To me, that is not worthless, and it’s nice to be able to go back in time and see which games I’ve completed, which ones I haven’t, and even see the dates I played/got the achievements. It is interesting to track all the data.